There in some improvement for me in accessing the site but not as good as it was on March 26,2021. Reviews are now manageable but takes a bit more time.
I've just discovered a possible math contest question...
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4069992/pqr-pqqrrp2021-find-all-triples-of-p-q-r-and-all-of-them-are-prime
The "$2021$" raised my suspicions, and from the wording of it (and lack of any effort in solving) I've flagged it for review...
@MartinR That is ridiculous. To say that the question has been around and then to go and answer it : well, the answer will go with the question, but this user will now be in a mini-spotlight for me.
@Peter Thanks, not often that three high rep users are on the same question!
Also, the infinity questions just never seem to go. It is excruciating to read each day, what the first number after zero is, and then people say effectively "I know one can't divide by infinity, but CAN ONE DIVIDE BY INFINITY IN SPANISH?" (I mean, it translates to the same thing). I am not ridiculing these questions, but I wonder how these questions come to mind, because if I were honest my math classes were never interrupted by people going all over the concept of infinity.
It is a recent trend, bucked by fascinations from YouTube, imaginative blogs that try to intuit, and intuitions from physics that get carried over wrongly (like the delta function). Yes, we must crack down on these posts more often. It would help if we had a small army of canonical duplicates, which I could not locate as a group on the duplicates post on meta. Perhaps I will collect a few good ones.
@Peter I didn't send our conversation a couple of days ago; I moved our exchange to "Discussion between amWhy and Peter" (another chatroom). I just thought it was best to leave our discussion out of CURED.
@RRL Surely for lack of context? Why the ratio test failed wasn't mentioned, I got stuck is not good enough. Other tests , and why they are/aren't applicable is also not mentioned. That there is an answer with EIGHT up votes speaks volumes. Then again, it is a trend : the quicker the answer follows the question, the more votes it gets, sometimes very disproportionately!
@TeresaLisbon Ah. For me, I won't delete that one, because there's effort. But some other people might consider such questions to be too localized and hence not worth keeping.
@TeresaLisbon When Ross arrives, I smell trouble. Maybe some users are vultures/scavengers, who smell something rotten, and who show up to answer hopeless questions.
@user21820 All D's need only one more delete vote. I have only one close vote, which I'm saving for the worst of the worst I see in the next two hours!!
